In their 2025 Magic Quadrant for Email Security, Gartner recognized IRONSCALES as a Visionary and specifically called out our anticipating the need for and delivering deepfake detection ahead of other email security vendors. That's not marketing spin. That's an independent analyst saying we saw a threat coming and built protection before our competitors did. (Our recent research found 85% of organizations experienced deepfake-related incidents in the past year, with average losses exceeding $280,000. Read the full report.)
I don't take that lightly.
Gartner's definition of Visionary has evolved. Here's what they wrote this year:
"Visionaries focus on solving emerging and complex problems through innovative, AI-driven approaches such as deepfake prevention and advanced identity protection, rather than refining features that have generally reached maturity throughout the market. They often excel at reducing security operations center (SOC) burden through agentic AI and autonomous remediation capabilities, prioritizing deployment simplicity and low operational overhead. They demonstrate agility by being first to market with specialized threat defense capabilities."
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Email Security, Max Taggett, Nikul Patel, 1 December 2025
Read that carefully. That's not a description we wrote. That's Gartner describing the category, and it reads like our product roadmap. Deepfake prevention isn't a hypothetical capability Gartner hopes someone builds. It's now a defining characteristic of forward-looking email security. And IRONSCALES was first.
This is why being a Visionary matters more than chasing a different quadrant. Leaders are defined by market adoption and financial stability, important qualities that we have, but not the same as stopping the attack that didn't exist six months ago.
Gartner's report makes something clear; the attacks have changed faster than most vendors' roadmaps.
GenAI-powered phishing. Deepfakes targeting executives over video calls. QR code attacks bypassing traditional link scanning. Business email compromise that mimics writing styles so precisely even trained employees get fooled. These aren't theoretical, they're in the wild, at scale, right now.
Vendors relying on static signatures, gateway-only deployment, rule-based detection, and static AI are playing catch-up. Some are acquiring their way to relevance. Others are bolting on capabilities that weren't part of their original architecture.
We didn't have to catch up. We were already there. That's not a boast, it's the reason we exist. IRONSCALES was founded on the belief that threats would evolve faster than traditional defenses could adapt. That belief drove us to build Adaptive AI from the start, not retrofit it later.
Gartner's recognition matters. But what matters more is whether we're delivering for the people who trust us with their inboxes every day.
Across Gartner Peer Insights, G2, and independent reviews, our customers consistently tell the same story - IRONSCALES delivers what we promise, and we make it easier than the alternatives. When security teams say we've cut their incident response time from 30 minutes to 30 seconds, or reduced their phishing-related workload by 95%, that's the proof that matters most.
That's the promise we made when I started this company in 2014. Combine AI speed with human insight. Anticipate threats before they emerge. Make security that actually works for the people using it.
We're still keeping that promise.
Deepfakes were the emerging threat we anticipated last year. We shipped protection while others debated whether it was real. Now it's table stakes.
So what's next?
We're entering what I call Phishing 3.0 threat landscape, AI-generated attacks across multiple channels, multiple modalities, moving faster than any human SOC can manually triage. The line between "email security" and "communication security" is disappearing.
The answer isn't more dashboards or more alerts. It's preemptive, agentic AI that acts before the damage is done. That's where we're headed and it's why Gartner's Visionary definition already references "agentic AI and autonomous remediation."
We see what's coming. We're building for it. And when Gartner writes their 2026 report, I expect we'll have the receipts again.
Over ten years ago, we bet that AI alone wouldn't be enough, that the best defense would combine machine intelligence with human insight. That belief hasn't changed. What's changed is how many threats have proven us right.
Being a Visionary means we don't wait for the market to tell us what to build. We watch how attackers evolve, we listen to what our customers face, and we ship protection before it becomes an emergency.
That's the promise IRONSCALES makes. And it's a promise we intend to keep.
If any of this resonates, if you're tired of waiting for your current vendor to catch up to the threats you're already seeing, I'd welcome a conversation. Reach out to my team. We'll listen first, and if we're a good fit, we'll show you exactly why.
Eyal Benishti
Founder and CEO, IRONSCALES